ON THIS DAY IN EARLY DODGERS HISTORY: MAY 23

Posted by Ron on May 23, 2012 | 0 comments

May 23, 1886—The Brooklyn baseball team plays its first Sunday home game, defeating the St. Louis Browns 13 to 12.  The game is played at the team’s park in Ridgewood, N.Y., in Queens County instead of  Brooklyn’s Washington Park in Kings County, where Sunday baseball is banned.